Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-05-02 Thread gj
questions! Thanks for the help! g - Forwarded message from gj [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:23:59 +0100 From: gj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: gj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files To: amanda-users@amanda.org Sorry

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-05-02 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:08:08PM +0100, gj enlightened us: I finally have some more clarifying(?) details of my problem(s) that some of you were asking for! The amrecover error I am writing about in this email is slightly different from the problem in my original post, but perhaps they

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-18 Thread gj
How about the indexes for the questionable DLE's. Do they show the files you expect were in fact backed up? The indexes should show everything on the tape. If indexes are the listings you get when you ls in amrecover, then the indexes seem to stop at certain subdirectories. That is, when I ls

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-18 Thread Toomas Aas
gj wrote: If indexes are the listings you get when you ls in amrecover, then the indexes seem to stop at certain subdirectories. That is, when I ls in the subdirectory (listed in the index) where the file to be recovered is, I only get a . (no files listed even though the original machine had

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-17 Thread gj
Maybe the tar or dump process that is doing the actual recovery simply hasn't finished yet. It doesn't stop after having recovered the file you requested, it goes through the entire backup image in any case. With big backup images this may take some time. Yes, I was hoping that was the case

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-17 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:57:13PM +0100, gj wrote: Maybe the tar or dump process that is doing the actual recovery simply hasn't finished yet. It doesn't stop after having recovered the file you requested, it goes through the entire backup image in any case. With big backup images this

Re: q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-15 Thread Toomas Aas
gj wrote: In case this may be related, sometimes when I am successful in extracting/recovering a file, amrecover stalls. When I wait awhile, I see in a different terminal that the file has been recovered, but I don't get the amrecover prompt back and I need to ^C to quit. Maybe the tar or dump

q: amrecover, directories okay but no files

2005-04-14 Thread gj
Hi, I'm testing out my backup system and randomly selecting files from different hosts to recover (with amrecover). Even though I would not have an error message associated with the DLE I'm trying to recover files from, I've found that amrecover reports that there are no files in the folder in